Undergraduate Program Major Declaring Physics as your Major Program Description and Course Requirements Sample 4-year Physics Major Curriculum Concentrations in Physics Advanced Placement Engineering Physics Major Individually Designed Major for Teaching Physical Science Minor Research Other

Declaring Physics as your Major:

1. Use Axess to submit your request to declare.
2. Contact Elva, who will assign one of the Physics faculty to be your advisor.
3. Take your unofficial transcript to your advisor, along with a copy of the B.S. Minimum Requirement Form, to plan your physics career. If you have any missing or non-standard courses, especially for the intro (40 or 60) series, this is also the time to arrange for transfer credit, make-ups and/or substitutions, by using the Departmental Petition Form for any of these non-standard situations.  Please have your advisor sign the B.S. Minimum Requirement Form and return it to Elva. At this point your advisor should also sign off on any necessary Petition Forms for substitutions to the required courses.
   
4. Have your picture taken at the Physics Undergraduate Office, Varian Building, 107, Elva Carbajal
5. Request your file to be sent via ID mail from your undergraduate advisor to Elva Carbajal at Mail Code 4060
6. Sign up for Society of Physics Students e-mail listing: stanford-sps@lists.stanford.edu (http://lists.stanford.edu)
7. For after hour library privileges, contact the Physics Library.
   
8. For after hour Varian Building privileges bring Stanford ID to Physics Main Office to be activated.

See the Registrar's Office pages on Majors and Minors for more information.